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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Red Dust was about the late 1980s; it was a time of burgeoning hopes and opening up and people searching for new ways.
- How
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I wanted to analyse and understand how the Chinese people could have their lives so crushed by fear.
- Responsibility
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China is completely lacking in self-awareness and as someone who has stepped outside that society, I have a responsibility to write about it as I see it.
- Books
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I left Beijing in 1987, shortly before my books were banned there, but have returned continually.
- Living
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In 1989, I was on Tiananmen Square with the students, living in their makeshift tents and joining their jubilant singing of the Internationale. In the two decades since, each time that I have gone back, visions from those days seem to return with increasing persistence.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
In February of this year I returned to China to research my next book. The authorities know about the novels of mine that have been published in the west, including the latest one, Beijing Coma, about a student shot in Tiananmen Square, but so far have allowed me to return.
- Finish
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Beijing Coma took me 10 years to finish.
- Mind
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Tyrannies not only want to control your mind and thoughts but your flesh as well.
- Deep
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is vitally important for me, both personally and for my writing, to be able to return to China freely, so being barred entry has caused me deep concern and distress.
- Chinese Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
My hope is that the Chinese government will come to realise that it is futile to repress free speech, and that contrary to what they believe a regime's strength rests not its suppression of a plurality of opinions and ideas, but in its capacity and willingness to encourage them.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Beijing Olympics represent China's grand entrance onto the world stage and confirmation of its new superpower status.
- Information
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Chinese people have been forced to forget the Tiananmen massacre. There has been no public debate about the event, no official apology. The media aren't allowed to mention it. Still today people are being persecuted and imprisoned for disseminating information about it.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I meant that the Chinese people are not aware of their own entrapment. They believe they live in a free society, but don't realize how much they are being monitored and controlled, how much the information they receive is restricted and warped, until they step out of line, that is, and feel the heavy hand of the state fall on them.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020